The brachycephalic have heavier brains than the dolichocephalic.
In Hottentots both indices, breadth and height, are low.
The following may be mentioned as examples of remarkably broad heads (wide foreheads), in association with genius: Shakespeare, Beranger, Mirabeau, Peacock (the novelist), Miss Austen, Blackmore (“Lorna Doone”), Tennyson, Erskine.
The following had heads both tall and broad: Scott, Goethe, Cervantes, Ambrose Paré, John Foster, Father Paul, Galileo, Michael Angelo, Machiavelli, Benjamin West.
We shall be indebted to any of our readers who may direct our attention to other well-marked examples.
The following afford instances of remarkably tall heads: Motley (the historian of the Netherlands), Remin (engineer), Richard Roberts (engineer).
The following had remarkably long faces: Francis I., Inigo Jones, George Eliot (Miss Evans), Savonorola.
THE EGG MARKET IN ENGLAND.
A wholesale dealer gives us the following items as to the consumption of eggs in London: When eggs are 16 for a shilling the sale amongst the working classes is enormous. When they are 12 a shilling it falls at once 40 per cent., and when only 8 it drops very low. The bulk of London eggs are imported; Italy supplies many, France many, and some even come from Turkey. They will travel from Trebizond and be perfectly fresh when they arrive in London. We are assured that most of the new-laid eggs consumed in Haslemere come from Italy, and this at all periods of the year. Our English housewives are not clever at preserving eggs, and the witty classification of eggs into new-laid eggs, fresh eggs, and eggs, is but too often illustrated.